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TTI Design Internship: Ryobi, RIDGID, Black Max & Hart

A year on Techtronic Industries’ design team across Ryobi, RIDGID, Black Max and Hart — with production rubber feet that shipped on two Ryobi products.

Role: Industrial Design Intern
Timeline: May 2019 – May 2020
Company: Techtronic Industries (TTI)
Location: Anderson, SC
Brands: Ryobi, RIDGID, Black Max, Hart
Tools: Sketching, Photoshop & Illustrator, SolidWorks, KeyShot
Discipline: Power tools & outdoor equipment
Outcome: Rubber feet in production

TTI Design Internship: Ryobi, RIDGID, Black Max & Hart, cover image

Overview

Right after graduating from Ohio State, I joined Techtronic Industries’ design team in Anderson, South Carolina, for my first industrial design internship.

Over a year, I worked on consumer and professional power tools and outdoor equipment for Ryobi, RIDGID, Black Max, and Hart. I worked in analog sketches, Photoshop and Illustrator, SolidWorks, and KeyShot, and created color, finish, and graphics documents for manufacturing.

Scope: Consumer and professional power tools and outdoor equipment for four TTI brands.
Process: Analog ideation sketches, Photoshop and Illustrator, SolidWorks and KeyShot; color, finish and graphics documents for manufacturing.
Outcome: Production rubber feet for a Ryobi jointer and its benchtop stand; Black Max wheel and tire designs; a benchtop sketch that helped inspire the PBLTS01B’s design direction.

Ryobi PBLTS01B table saw

My benchtop concept sketch helped inspire the design direction of the Ryobi ONE+ HP 18V Brushless 8-1/4 in. Compact Portable Jobsite Table Saw (PBLTS01B). I didn’t design the shipped saw; the sketch was early input to its direction.

**Fig. 01**Board detail — RIDGID benchtop: table saw and component studies

**Fig. 02**Ryobi PBLTS01B — the shipped product

Rubber feet — in production

I designed the rubber feet for an existing white-label jointer that we adapted to the Ryobi brand, along with the rubber feet for its benchtop stand. Both are in production.

**Fig. 04**Rubber feet MSUV AC9960 — CAD views

**Fig. 05**Board detail — Ryobi benchtop: planer, jointer with rubber-foot callout, stands

Wheels and tires

I designed wheels and tires for Black Max; the board also shows tire studies under the Ryobi label.

Early ideation sketches

Early ideation for Ryobi power equipment and Hart outdoor.

**Fig. 08**Ryobi Power Equipment — early ideation

**Fig. 10**Hart Outdoor — early ideation

Rendering practice

The stands are rendering practice, applying the brands’ visual brand language (VBL).

The year on one board

The full internship board, May 2019 – May 2020, across all four brands.

**Fig. 12**Internship board — Ryobi, RIDGID, Black Max and Hart

Brands and products

Retail images of RIDGID, Ryobi and Black Max products shown in the original portfolio, for context.

**Fig. 13**RIDGID miter saw on stand — retail image

**Fig. 14**RIDGID stand detail — retail image

**Fig. 16**Ryobi 12-1/2 in. planer — retail image

**Fig. 17**Black Max mower — retail image

Contribution

Production work and early ideation across four TTI brands.

My benchtop concept sketch helped inspire the design direction of the Ryobi ONE+ HP 18V Brushless 8-1/4 in. Compact Portable Jobsite Table Saw (PBLTS01B).
Designed the production rubber feet for an existing white-label jointer adapted to the Ryobi brand, and for its benchtop stand — in production.
Designed wheels and tires for Black Max.
Created color, finish, and graphics documents for manufacturing.